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UIC special partner for 7th International Railway Summit

The 7th International Railway Summit will be hosted in association with the International
Union of Railways (UIC), it has been announced. The summit, a
comprehensive networking event for the railway sector, is organised by
IRITS Events and will take place in Frankfurt, Germany on 20-22 February
2019.

UIC is the worldwide professional association which
represents 200-member organisations in 100 countries, encompassing 1
million km of rail track. The association helps members meet sustainable
development and mobility challenges, creates standards and common
solutions, and proposes new ways to improve technical performance,
competitiveness and cost efficiency. UIC develops and facilitates
cooperation and the sharing of best practices among members.

The
7th International Railway Summit will feature a full 2-day conference
programme with speeches delivered by sector leaders and experts, as well
as concurrent bespoke one-to-one consultation meetings between buyer
and expert companies.

The conference programme is organised under
the umbrella theme ‘How do we achieve an efficient railway system in the
digital era?’.

UIC’s Director General, Jean-Pierre Loubinoux will
deliver a keynote speech as part of a session entitled ‘Power in the
customer’s hands: How can digital remove barriers to cross-border
travel’, plotting the course for how new technologies can bring people,
businesses and nations closer together.

Francis Bedel, Chief
Digital Officer of UIC, will act as conference chairman, introducing and
summarising two days of ideas, agreements, and controversies.
Jean-Michel Evanghelou, UIC’s Head of Telecom and Signalling, will
moderate ‘5G and FRMCS: The post GSM-R strategy for Railways’,
discussing the future technologies and standards for rail
communications, where UIC is playing a leading role.

Jean-Pierre
Loubinoux remarked: “In a world changing its traditional paradigms and
accelerating its pace of innovation, the digital input into our railway
sector must be taken as an opportunity for more productivity, more
interoperability and more services for our customers.”

Jules
Omura, Managing Director of IRITS Events, commented: “We are proud to
host the 7th International Railway Summit in association with UIC. The
summit in Frankfurt will mark the fourth time we have collaborated since
our partnership began at the fourth edition of the summit at UIC’s
Headquarters in Paris in February 2017. UIC's unique reach and influence
has greatly helped enhance the quality and impact of the summit. I
would like to make a special tribute to Jean-Pierre Loubinoux who has
been instrumental in making our partnership a success, as he makes his
last appearance at the summit in his capacity as the UIC's Director
General”

International Railway Summit is a meeting of senior executives
representing the world’s key rail operators, rail infrastructure
management companies, national and local governments, rolling stock
manufacturers and a wide range of solution providers.

International
Railway Summit provides a 'matchmaking' service between rail industry
leaders ('buyers') and technical experts, based on buyer delegates'
project requirements and the proven expertise of large and small
suppliers that we have carefully handpicked. Based on this matchmaking,
buyer delegates attend one-to-one consultation sessions with suitable
suppliers during the annual summit.

In addition to the one-to-one
meetings, delegates also attend a conference programme given by key
industry leaders and experts and network over lunches and dinners with
their counterparts and industry colleagues from all over the world.
International Railway Summit is hosted by IRITS Events. The 7th International Railway Summit will take
place
on 20-22 February 2019 in Frankfurt, Germany. The 8th International Railway Summit will take place on 20-22 November 2019 in New Delhi, the first time the event will have been held in India.